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- The History of Galway, Sean Spellissy, 1999. ISBN 978-0-9534683-3-1
- ↑ Pope, Conor (8 June 2019). "Alcock and Brown: Those magnificent men who landed their flying machine in a Galway bog". Irish Times.
